Vedr. Re: In Defence Of A Goddess - A

From: Mark Galeotti <markgaleotti_at_lP_7gV_zWc7wm1mUU8udMN3RQ6HlkE_JWPeOBSnBCx-wayjdOCYEEHPUkc4Cudr>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:15:21 -0000

• In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, David Cake <dave_at_...> wrote:
  > Oh, god. Trying to run Pendragon, especially in its original
  > incarnation, with players who want to play women in meaningful
  roles
  > just sucked. Its the massive unspoken flaw in Pendragon, methinks -
  > and its a classic game design issue, the loving recreation of the
  > attitudes of the source material, including the ones that are a
  real
  > problem for gaming.
  

But isn't that the whole point of playing Pendragon -- to recreate and emulate a particular genre. If you want a setting with radically different genre roles, then you might decide to use the Pendreagon rules, or riff off the Arthurian myth or whatever -- but you aren't playing Pendragon. This is something I really don't get about part of this debate -- the notion that somehow Heortling culture ought not to be sexist and have all kinds of stupid, patriarchal restrictions... you know, the way most RW cultures do. It's like complaining that you can't have an Orlanthi ninja or be a Dara Happan hippy without your family disowning you.

All the best

Mark